diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/syslog-ng/syslog-ng_4.7.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/syslog-ng/syslog-ng_4.7.0.bb
index 588a38126b..e489287c5a 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/syslog-ng/syslog-ng_4.7.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/syslog-ng/syslog-ng_4.7.0.bb
@@ -64,15 +64,6 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[tcp-wrapper] = "--enable-tcp-wrapper,--disable-tcp-wrapper,tcp-wra
 PACKAGECONFIG[geoip] = "--enable-geoip,--disable-geoip,geoip,"
 PACKAGECONFIG[native] = "--enable-native,--disable-native,,"
 
-do_configure:prepend() {
-	olddir=$(pwd)
-	cd ${AUTOTOOLS_SCRIPT_PATH}
-
-	ACLOCAL="$ACLOCAL" autoreconf -Wcross --verbose --install --force ${EXTRA_AUTORECONF} -I ${S}/m4 ${ACLOCALEXTRAPATH} || die "extra autoreconf execution failed."
-
-	cd $olddir
-}
-
 do_install:append() {
     install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/${BPN}
     install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d